Old Wives’ Tales That Are Just Plain Wrong

A Different Type Of Gender Reveal

My personal favorite is the knife vs. scissors test. So my grandma would do this to all the pregnant women she could. She would take two chairs, two towels, a kitchen knife, and a big pair of scissors. She would wrap each item in a towel and place them each on a chair. The pregnant lady would not be in the room at this time.

She would then be brought in. Not knowing which item was on which chair, she would pick a random one and sit on it. Supposedly, the mom knows the baby’s gender subconsciously and automatically picks the correct chair. Knife for a boy, scissors for the girl.